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Breaking the Box: Trinity Students Design an Addition to the Raether Library

July 28, 2025 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

“For the love of postage – write”:  I Found it at the Watkinson!

May 9, 2025 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Made by Hand: Labor, Craft, and the Quiet Power of Resistance

April 28, 2025 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

An Exhibit in the Watkinson Library, curated by Christina Bleyer “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi In an era obsessed with speed, disposability, and mass production, Made by Hand dares to honor what is deliberate, communal, and enduring. On view in the Watkinson Library Reading Room, this exhibit celebrates …

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Watkinson Acquires Four New Artists’ Books, Courtesy of Booklyn

February 28, 2025 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

the things we take (and the things we couldn’t) by Gino Romero

Witness to History: Gladys Gage and the Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII

February 18, 2025 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Just over 83 years ago, on December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. port at Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i, drawing the previously neutral United States into joining the side of the Allies in World War II. Mistrusting the sympathies of its own citizens, the United States also responded by placing approximately 120,000 citizens …

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Former USAID editor graduated with Trinity Class of 1964

February 7, 2025 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

Between 2002 and 2012, Ben Barber ’64 served as senior writer, photographer and editor for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He was in charge of the production of the magazine Frontlines. Barber donated his papers to the Watkinson Library at Trinity College in 2016. A finding aid to the collection, including some …

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David Spicer & His Passion for Organ Music

November 22, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

David Spicer’s annotations on Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” Op. 123

From Memory to History: Scrapbooks at the Watkinson Library – Exhibit Currently On View

September 9, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

From the curator, Leonard Banco: The Watkinson Library Scrapbook Collection consists of 120 albums that were compiled between 1820 and 1965. Some comprise a series of scrapbooks completed by single individuals; others are albums that stand alone. The names of the compilers are known or can be deduced for the majority of these albums; for …

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Watkinson Lands a Whale!

September 6, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

By Eric Johnson-DeBaufre, Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian For collectors of fine press books, the Arion Press edition of Moby Dick induces a mania like the whale did for Ahab. In 1978, when Arion announced its plan to publish this work in a limited edition of 265 copies (only 250 of which were to …

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Watkinson Acquires Three New Artists’ Books, Courtesy of Booklyn

August 27, 2024 / Watkinson / 0 Comments

by Casey Machenheimer, Special Collections and Archives Librarian for Public Services, Research, and Outreach Watkinson Library adds three new artists’ books to its collections. Two of these books will be added to the Enders Ornithology Collection. These books were brought to the library courtesy of Booklyn, an artist-run, non-profit organization with the mission to “promote …

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